Brisbane Training - The Missing Link Level 1

The Missing Link: Integrating somatic approaches into clinical practice.

Within psychology, the body and even emotion, has tended to be sidelined with a focus on the thinking mind, in line with current cultural values. However, this can result in the shoring up of old, previously necessary, but ultimately limiting, avoidance mechanisms, so that authentic change does not occur.

It can also lead to ‘stuckness’ in therapy and burn out in professionals who experience the limits of the traditional paradigm, when faced with clients who may have addressed a symptom, and come to ‘understand’ why they feel and behave the ways they do, but still can’t seem to change how they feel.

Developments within the field of trauma therapy and research have begun to place, front and centre, the body, including our nervous system and our emotions, both as a container of trauma, and as a means to heal and re-connect with our ‘true selves’, our truth, our values and our uniqueness.

Through the application of somatic approaches to psychological therapy, and learning to listen to the language of the body, deeper and more profound healing and growth can occur within our clients and ourselves.

In this 3 day (20 hours of training), in-person course, you will learn how to begin to integrate somatic awareness practices into your usual evidence-based clinical practice, tapping into what is held in the body; trauma, emotion, deep wisdom and the ability to heal and re-discover wholeness.

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• recognise the impact of trauma on their minds, psyche and bodies,
• implement techniques from established somatic psychology theories and approaches to address their client’s body-mind,
• distinguish, through experiential methods, the difference between ‘being with, with compassion’ and ‘fixing’.
• identify work-related beliefs and attitudes that protect against burn-out, and
• utilise somatic exercises to develop a more compassionate relationship with their own bodies.

These courses are open to Psychologists, Social Workers, Therapists, Counsellors and anyone working with people in a healing or caring capacity.